On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 1:50 PM Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Op ma 28 aug 2023 om 11:55 schreef Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 12:27 PM Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > On debian 12, when Itype: >> > systemctl status spam >> > >> > and giving a tab I get: >> > spamassassin-maintenance.service spamassassin.service >> > spamassassin-maintenance.timer spamd.service >> > >> > Still: >> > systemctl start spamassassin.service >> > >> > keeps giving not found. >> > >> >> Those units are probably listed as dependencies somewhere. Units >> listed in Wants or After/Before are not required to exist. >> >> > So systemctl thinks there is a spamassassin.service file, but when >> > starting it does not find it. >> > >> > I do not find a spamassassin.service file on my system. The other >> > three I do find. >> > >> > When using: >> > find / -name spamassassin.service >> > >> > it does not find spamassassin.service. >> > So why does systemctl think there is a spamassassin.service? >> >> It is not the systemctl, it is your shell completion of the systemctl. >> Just look at the output of "systemctl list-units --all" for >> "not-found". > > > I have to clean up my system: there are 25 not-found services, 3 not-found targets, 2 not-found mounts and 1 not-found socket. > > For spamassassin.service I see: > ● spamassassin.service not-found inactive dead spamassassin.service > > But when I give: > systemctl list-dependencies spamassassin.service > > I get: > spamassassin.service > > I looked into: > /etc/systemd/system > /run/systemd/system > /lib/systemd/system > But I do not find dependencies. > > Where else should I look? > Look at "systemctl show spamassassin.service". > >> Maybe completion should skip missing units. At least for such actions >> as "status" this does not look useful. >> >> > And how do I make it forget it? >> > >> >> systemd cannot forget them as long as units depending on them are still loaded. > > > > -- > Cecil Westerhof